As you’ve undoubtedly noticed by now, I put a fairly primitive-looking stay-at-the-top box on our main page to create one-stop shopping for all of your Second Middlesex Senate race needs.
Is this a good idea? Useful? Or does it just make the page look crappy and get in your way without serving any useful purpose?
(I apologize for the box’s lame appearance – that is a function of my non-fluency with html. I’m just looking for thoughts on the idea, not so much the execution.)
Please share widely!
Fine by me. Functional.By the way, here’s a big article on the race in the Globe.
It is useful. The table isn’t though — it seems like a lot of dead space and wierd word wrapping stuff. Perhaps there’s a different way to organize it?Also, maybe it just belongs on a left or right hand margin, this way it also appears when folks click on some other blog posting, or for folks who go straight to blog postings via RSS readers…
Perhaps there’s a different way to organize it?I’m sure there is – the problem is my lack of facility with html. I wanted to have the text of the links smaller, which would have avoided some of the word wrap problems and generally neatened the appearance, but the usual font size commands were apparently overridden by the weird Typepad codes that are all over the template. Anyone know how to avoid this?Update: I have simplified the table layout in a way that I think uses the space better.
I like the list format.